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Currency doesn't show in charts

Issue is with metric: Even if you tag the currency, it won't show in the charts and if currency is Euros, it also won't show the Euro sign.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Apptio tables Show Values not working when RLS Applied

Show values does not work in the RLS Step and users see different row count.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Option to Filter or Suppress Specific Recommendations in Policy Enforcement

In Turbonomic, we often encounter scenarios where certain recommendations (such as resize, move, or suspend actions) are not immediately actionable due to operational dependencies, planned change windows, or business decisions. Currently, within t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Enable Image Attachment in Comments on Rightsizing ROI Screen

Customer wants the ability to attach images (e.g., screenshots) in the comment section of the Rightsizing ROI screen. Background: When sharing the status or context of a detected resource, it would be helpful to include screenshots for clarity. Th...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Backing up of Apptio BI Reports

Hi , my suggestion is that thru report collections to include also filters and insights meaning to include 100% of the information of Apptio BI reports in the export Json file . maybe with a way to export these thru an API (for further automatizat...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elastisearch

I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS service like Elastisearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive greater effic...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 5

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 5 Planned for future release

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be great and it's required as soon as possible.

The columns showing up in any step of a table is not alphabetically sorted. A functionality to sort / arrange them alphabetically would be helpful
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review